The President of the Third Reich's Volksgerichtschof ("Peoples Court"), while presiding as Judge on August 7th 1944 at coup conspirator Ervin von Witzleben's trial, shouts scathing sarcasm at the defendant so loudly that his voice was damaging the microphones: "A Field Marshal! -- and a Lieutenant General -- who has the temerity to declare that he can do better than he who, to all of us, is the Führer of the entire Reich and all Europe!."

Freisler delivers his verdict on 8/8/44: "In the name of the German People: Because you are traitors without honor, devoured by your own ambition: Carl Goerdeler, Wilehelm Leuschner, Josef Germer and Ulrich von Hassell: You have forsworn your honor by entering into a heinous conspiracy with a gang of politically fiendish officers who plotted to murder our Führer. You planned a government of fiends with the purpose of keeping our people in a dark reactionary enslavement and to throw it to the mercy of the enemy. You refused to join the entire German people in following the Führer on the road to final victory. Instead, you betrayed our heroic warriors, our People, our Führer and the Nation. You are sentenced to death, and your property shall revert to the Reich."